What makes Wang Xuexin gratified is that none of the pilot students chose to quit.
However, it is also possible that they have never been on the battlefield and do not understand the horror of life and death fighting on the battlefield, or they are too embarrassed to withdraw at this time due to face.
But no matter what, the 50 student pilots stayed.
Wang Xuexin assigned several pilots with rich combat experience and adopted the model of veterans leading new recruits...the veterans were ten pilots transferred from Wangxing Airport.
Because there are only ten people, including the captain Yu Ping, they can only be allocated according to the establishment of one veteran leading ten recruits. The remaining four veterans are used in the reserve team in case there are no more veterans after the sacrifice of other veterans.
lead.
As the captain of the aviation team, Yu Ping is of course used for command rather than fighting on the front line.
Because the training subjects for student pilots were not complicated, combat effectiveness was initially formed after more than a month. Wang Xuexin believed that the time was ripe to attack the Daqingshan Steel Plant at this time.
The reason why Wang Xuexin is so anxious is because it is about to enter October. In a while, the Daqingshan area will be snowed in. By then, no ammunition and supplies will be able to be transported, and the Japanese are stationed in the Daqingshan Steel Plant.
But you can wait for work and defend instead of attack.
Under this situation, even if the Eighth Route Army could capture the Daqingshan Iron and Steel Plant, it would have to pay a heavy price.
If the Eighth Route Army could capture the steel plant before the heavy snow closed the mountains, the Japanese would have difficulty organizing an effective counterattack in winter due to climate reasons, which would give the Eighth Route Army a long time to prepare.
Therefore, Wang Xuexin did not think much and immediately reported the battle plan to attack the Daqingshan Steel Plant to the headquarters.
After reading Wang Xuexin's battle plan overnight and having some discussions and even deductions, the commander and chief of staff agreed that it was a feasible plan, and immediately deployed troops and generals according to the battle plan.
One of them was to secretly transfer Li Yunlong's independent regiment to the north to attack the Daqingshan Iron and Steel Plant.
Li Yunlong was not happy about this.
After receiving the transfer order, Li Yunlong said nothing and walked back and forth in front of the telegraph with his hands behind his back, and then walked back and forth.
Zhao Gang had a problem when he saw Li Yunlong like this. If this guy was like this, he was thinking of evil ideas in his mind and refused to obey orders.
So Zhao Gang asked: "Old Li, what makes you unhappy?"
Li Yunlong glanced at Zhao Gang, then angrily handed the telegram in his hand to Zhao Gang and said, "Look at this!"
Zhao Gang took a look at the telegram and couldn't help but frowned.
It turned out that this telegram requested the independent regiment to be secretly transferred to Daqingshan.
Daqingshan?
The Eighth Route Army all knew that it was a place so poor that no one could shit... In fact, the Daqingshan area was not poor. It was one of the rare plains in the Yellow River. There were also rich mines and resources nearby.
The problem is that the Eighth Route Army's control in the north is weak, and the Daqingshan base area has been compressed into the mountains and cannot move.
Under such circumstances, the Independent Regiment needs to be transferred to Daqingshan... Does that mean that the Independent Regiment has to start over? In other words, it will go into the mountains to fight guerrillas?
After thinking about it, Zhao Gang said: "There is no problem with this, right? Lao Li, the so-called 'good steel is used on the blade', just because our independent regiment is excellent, able to fight, and has strong combat effectiveness, the headquarters sent us to the most dangerous place.
The most difficult part..."
"What a fart!" Li Yunlong objected without thinking: "Old Zhao, don't tell me any nonsense. If you really drag my independent regiment to Daqingshan to fight against the Japanese and establish a base, I won't even frown.
Take a moment. But think about it, that is Daqingshan, and the distance northward is at least eight or nine hundred kilometers. Many of the mountain roads have just been built, and there are inevitably many temporary bridges among them... You know what this means
What are you wearing?"
Zhao Gang thought for a while but still didn't understand what Li Yunlong meant, so he asked curiously: "What does it mean?"
Li Yunlong looked helplessly at Zhao Gang, with a look of hatred on his face: "Old Zhao, why don't you understand? Tank battalion! Can our T26 and T34 tanks run so far? Even if they can run so far, there are many obstacles on the road.
Can these temporary bridges be crossed? Even if these bridges can be crossed, can the Daqingshan battlefield be reached?"
Zhao Gang couldn't help but said "Oh" when he heard this, and then felt a little helpless. This Li Yunlong, after thinking about it for a long time, was his own equipment.
But... this is indeed a question. Does that mean the tank battalion will stay in Yuncheng?
Before Zhao Gang could speak, Li Yunlong glared and said: "Old Zhao, you can't stop talking nonsense to me about this matter. I have worked hard to set up a tank battalion, and all the money I save on my daily life is used to raise tanks.
The tank camp has been established. It’s better now. I’m going to take down my tank camp without saying a word... Is this the right thing in the world?”
"Lao Li, don't worry!" Zhao Gang said, "Didn't the superiors not tell you how to arrange it yet?"
"What other arrangements can be made?" Li Yunlong replied: "Is it possible to bring the tank battalion to Daqingshan?"
Li Yunlong is right, it is basically impossible for the tank battalion to be brought to Daqingshan.
Among them, especially the T34 tank, if it were driven to Daqingshan, which is 900 kilometers away, several engines would probably break down... The Eighth Route Army did not have flatbed trucks or cars used to transport tanks at this time.
Zhao Gang was forced to do nothing by Li Yunlong. At the same time, he also wanted to know what to do with the tank battalion, so he sent a telegram to the headquarters to inquire.
The headquarters quickly responded: "Due to the needs of Yuncheng defense, the tank battalion is temporarily organized into the new second regiment!"
Li Yunlong became even more angry when he saw this telegram: "Damn it, I married my wife into someone else's bridal chamber, and this still allowed Kong Er to take advantage! I don't care, it's useless for anyone to say it, I just stay here
This is not leaving!"
"Li Yunlong!" Zhao Gang became angry after listening to Li Yunlong's words: "The superior has arrangements from the superior, do you understand that you must obey the order?"
"What arrangement?" Li Yunlong, who was getting angry, suddenly became angry: "Is there such an arrangement? Why can't I have such a good thing? The tank force that others have run for many years is left to the independent regiment? Is there anything else?
Is it justified?"
"You..." Zhao Gang was speechless by Li Yunlong, and even he felt that the headquarters had gone too far this time. Why did the tank battalion be transferred out of the independent regiment without any reason?
This is a tank battalion, the only tank battalion of the Eighth Route Army!
But Zhao Gang calmed down and thought about it, and then said: "Old Li, tell me, is there any truth in this?"
"What?" Li Yunlong asked with a dark face.
"I mean..." Zhao Gang said: "The headquarters transferred a tank battalion without saying anything, and we have to march secretly to Daqingshan!"